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If you have a wide-screen/relatively large monitor it might be an idea to download the unofficial widescreen/User Interface mods so you're not stretching a 640x480 game across 26" or whatever.

Anyway, this marks two of the seven planned Hasbo titles GOG say they're going to release. I'm guessing three of the other five will be Baldur's Gate II and Icewindale I/II, and another one may be The Temple of Elemental Evil, but what about the last one? Gold Box collection? Dark sun: Shattered Lands? Ruins of Myth Drannor, lol?

I'd LOVE to play this! I'd never got a chance to and I'm really kicking myself for it. How many years before Neverwinter Nights was this? I just remember it was great like Icewind Dale was (Both of which I never got to play. ~_~). IS Icewind Dale I and II available anymore? From what I remember, Ruins of Myth Drannor was TERRIBLE. It needed a patch just to work properly if memory serves.

Hasbro? I thought Wizards of the Coast owned them now since Interplay is no longer making games. I'd also love to play the full version of BG II... I'd love it if someone would go back and make HD remakes of them. ^_^ I'm sort of confused by this post. Does this mean that ALL of the Black Isle Studios games are now available for download? This is really cool. I may invest in some CLASSIC PC games! It looks like they have a LOT of good stuff! ~_^ Beyond Good and Evil! That's sweet!

They don't have all of the classic BioWare / Black Isle games, but they've got a fair number of them and will be adding more soon.

By the way, Planescape: Torment is basically the best RPG ever (at least, in terms of story and writing). The gameplay's a little dated by modern standards, but it's still one of my favorite games.

Also, I recommend that anybody who gets Baldur's Gate or Torment (or any of the other games that used the same engine) get this mod, which will allow you to play in higher screen resolutions: http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

I feel like I've been asleep for years... I've never even heard of this place before... I'm so ashamed. ~_~ So do ALL of these games work under 7?

I've only known about GOG for a few months myself, wish I'd known of them earlier. Most games aren't officially supported with Windows 7 but all my games(I have 11) from them work just fine. There is one game(Jagged Alliance 2) I have to run as administrator if I want to save my games but that's it.

I purchased Baldur's Gate last weekend and Planescape Torment this morning.

Never played Baldur's Gate and all this stuff has helped pique my interest so purchased a copy of it today. Went for a physical copy though as the 4-in-1 boxset of 1+2 and expansions was only £10, which is more value for money than GOG is currently doing (plus it doesn't have 2 yet). And I like physical stuffs.

I feel like I've been asleep for years... I've never even heard of this place before... I'm so ashamed. ~_~ So do ALL of these games work under 7?

It's been in beta for two years and didn't get a ton of press aside from the initial roll-out and some of their holiday sales. As Pimp pointed out, not all games are Win 7 certified... yet. I do believe they're working on it, but anything that works on Vista 32/64-bit should work on 7.

Just remembered something about this game (and other Infinity Engine games): some NVidia cards (particularly Series 8) don't play well with the DirectDraw calls this game uses, which can result in graphical corruption. If you're having issues like seeing a solid, "blocky" fog of war (ie the black mist that covers sections of the map until you explore them) you may want to try downloading and running this fix.

In my experience, the compatibility mode is more than wishful thinking in Windows 7 as well. I haven't had much trouble running games, and I play anything from Civilization V to Jazz Jackrabbit.

Planescape: Torment is also one of my favorite, if not my favorite, RPG. The writing is brilliant, the characters are top notch, and the story is not shabby. Combat is your basic turn based This-Is-A-CRPG combat. Graphics are, well. What you would expect from 11 year old graphics.

It's a shame it, alongside Icewind Dale, didn't sell well at -all-. We might've seen Fallout 3 / Baldur's Gate 3 coming out from Black Isle if at least Planescape had sold as well as it reviewed. Ending on Icewind Dale II was hardly a high note, and that game was outdated by the time it came out.

Nevertheless, Black Isle will always bring up warm fuzzy feelings of flying smarmy skulls and blowing up thieving children with live grenades.

Based on what's been revealed about BGIII/F3/Torn's development I don't think anything could have saved those games from Interplay's incompetence.

Completely true. Really heart-breaking reading about how Interplay mismanaged some of the best video game talent in the industry. You need Stonekeep 2 in that list as well, since that seems to have been the biggest money and time sink.

@Kiro -- Planescape: Torment was designed and developed as more of a side project while the Real People worked on the next Real Game. This is how Interplay let something so outstanding and unique out the door. Planescape didn't sell horribly -- it just didn't sell on the level of Interplay's other major releases, and it didn't sell well relative to the most successful PC games of that time. I'm pretty sure it sold over 500,000 copies in the first year, and for what was a lower budget side project, that isn't bad at all. Torn was the planned spiritual successor to Torment, so it made enough of a profit to warrant a new game in the "series."

Just remembered something about this game (and other Infinity Engine games): some NVidia cards (particularly Series 8) don't play well with the DirectDraw calls this game uses, which can result in graphical corruption. If you're having issues like seeing a solid, "blocky" fog of war (ie the black mist that covers sections of the map until you explore them) you may want to try downloading and running this fix.

They don't have all of the classic BioWare / Black Isle games, but they've got a fair number of them and will be adding more soon.

By the way, Planescape: Torment is basically the best RPG ever (at least, in terms of story and writing). The gameplay's a little dated by modern standards, but it's still one of my favorite games.

Also, I recommend that anybody who gets Baldur's Gate or Torment (or any of the other games that used the same engine) get this mod, which will allow you to play in higher screen resolutions: http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/

I wonder... is there a fix for FFVII to run on Win 7? That requires DirectShow... and I'd LOVE to be able to play Ultima on my PC... Any ideas? Is there something to fix Descent Freespace 1?

Unfortunately, you're unlikely to see any Ultima games on GoG.com (or Steam, or whatever) anytime soon. EA currently owns the series and has pretty much just been sitting on it. The last time an Ultima compliation was released, to my knowledge, was 1998. A dedicated web search might net you some instructions for whatever DOSBOX wizardry you have to pull off to get those things running, but man. I remember trying to get them running in DOS back in the day, and it always required major tweaks to autoexec.bat and config.sys... in fact, I completely fried my poor 486's system trying to adjust expanded memory in order to make Ultima: Savage Worlds work. Had to restore from backup. So I imagine that getting the games to work today is a major pain in the rear.

For the Ultima thing, it's not too hard to get them working in DosBox; it's getting the games at all at this point that is hard. To get them working, first I suggest getting the DosBox Game Launcher. This makes it easier to set up per-game configuration settings, which are needed for pretty much every Ultima game (except 8). If you are a Mac user, Boxer may be more to your taste (and I believe it auto-detects Ultima games to configure settings).